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L. A. SAUNDERS, Executn'x. MACHINE FOR WINDING THREAD 0R YARN UPON BOBBINS.

N0. 407,124. Patented July 16, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LOUISA A. SAUNDERS, OF NASHUA, NE\V HAMPSHIRE, EXECUTRIX OF BEN- JAMIN SAUNDERS, DECEASED.

MACHINE FOR WINDING THREAD OR YARN UPON BOBBINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 407,124, dated July 16, 1889.

Application filed April 1, 1889. Serial No. 305,643. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: clearer and guide will cause such adiiferenoe Be it known that BENJAMIN SAUNDERS, in therevolutions of the various bobbins and formerly a citizen of the United States, residthe time required for filling them as to result ing at Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough in dilferent amounts of thread wound in a 55 and State of New Hampshire, deceased, did given time upon the various bobbins, so that invent a new and useful Improvement in practically there is no attempt at uniformity Machines for IVinding Thread or Yarn Upon in the time required for filling the bobbins.

Bobbins, of which the following is a specifi- An attendant removes the bobbins as they cation. fill, one at a time, and replaces them by empty 6o 10 The object of said improvement is to give ones. Some means of stopping the revolution uniformity of size to the filled bobbins, thus of the bobbin or of breaking the thread when giving approximately equal lengths of thread the thread has accumulated to the desired or yarn upon the bobbins. This object is atamount is desirable. To this end many mantained by the mechanism illustrated in the ufacturers place a boX, which they use for 65 accompanying drawings, in which holding empty bobbins, in close proximity to Figure 1 is a sectional side View of enough the revolving bobbins, as indicated by dotted of a winding-machine to illustrate the invenline B This box imperfectly accomplishes tion. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing the the purpose, roughening and fraying the bobbin and guard-roll in section and their threads and being otherwise objectionable. 7o

supporting devices in elevation, and Fig. 2) The device shown accomplishes the desired shows a plan view of some parts shown in end. The stand F is placed beside the bob- Fig. 1. bin A, upon the rail B, which supports the Similar letteis refer to similar parts spindle E. Projecting from this stand is the throughout the several views. spindle II, and upon it is placed an idle-roll 75 In the drawings, B BB represent sections G, having a flange g at its lower part adapted of the frame which supports the various parts by projecting below the flange of the bobbin of a spooling device. The part 13 supports to prevent the roll from being lifted from its the quill from which the yarn or thread is spindle. The stand F is made adjustable in wound. The part B supports the bobbinrelation to thebobbin bymeans of bolt 1 and So spindle and the stand F. The part 13 supslot 2, so as to enable it to Vary its capacity ports the thread-clearer. for holding thread or yarn.

A is a bobbin'placed loosely upon a spindle It is obvious that when thread has been E, and normally revolving with said spindle wound so as to fill the bobbin, and it begins through frictional contact with the supportto press against the roll, the roll will not 3 5 ing-flange on the spindle E. Said spindle present a rigid resistance, but will revolve receives rotation through a belt acting upon with the bobbin; that it will not roughen or the pulley E The thread 0, which is to be fray the thread, and that when the resistance wound upon the bobbin A, is usually taken to revolution caused by filling/thespac' bcfrom the quill C, placed loosely upon a spintween the bobbin and roll becomes above a 0 o dle G which is held by frame 13. 'The thread certain degree the bobbin will stop, allowing 0 usually passes through the clearerb and the the spindle to keep its revolution. In other guide D, and is wound upon the bobbin words, the resistance caused by the pressure through force of its frictional contact with of the idle-roll will become greater than the the spindle E. friction from the spindle E, and thereby 5 The device, as so far described, is old, and cause the bobbin to cease revolving. An opusually aspooling-frame will have a hundred erator notes the stopping of the b i tbin, re-

duplications of these parts described. places it with an empty one, and them imrk of It must be obvious that the unequal resistwinding thread goes on.

ance with which the thread or yarn has to Having described the invention, the claims I00 50 contend, owing to the varied quality of the are as follows:

yarn, in passing from the quill through the l. The combination of a spindle adapted to an idle-roll carried by said stand and adapted to press upon the thread and prevent the further rotation of the bobbin when the thread has accumulated upon the bobbin to the desired amount.

LOUISA A. SAUNDERS, Attest: Ewecut'rix.

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